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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Work organisation"”.
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Agile Arbeitsorganisation in der Intralogistik – Die Bedeutung agiler Methoden, Praktiken und Tools für die Reaktionsfähigkeit in der Intralogistik aus der Perspektive von Blue-Collar-Beschäftigten in Schweizer Industrie- und Handelsunternehmen
… intralogistics, defined as the internal organisation and control of material and information flows within company boundaries, has become a key driver of operational performance and competitive differentiation. Yet, how agile methods, practices and tools, largely developed for …
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Elite retweets, opinions and engagement: the use Twitter by South African journalist Barry Bateman
… to 13 July 2013). Content analysis and social network analysis are used to investigate the tweets, the responses he receives and discussions he is involved with on the social network site. While Bateman uses his Twitter account primarily to share the posts of other professional journalists and to …
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Fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through business incubators in the Arab world
… and support the development of new forms of work organisation; new working arrangements, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship. Business incubation facilitates the development and growth of start-up companies by providing entrepreneurs with resources and services. Incubator management …
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The nature and transformation of communal socialism: a case study of Kibbutz industry
The thesis analyses the specificity of kibbutz work organisation. Although also engaging secondary data, utilising a qualitative methodology, empirical data is drawn from a case study kibbutz and its industrial plant. By reference to labour process and neo-institutionalist analyses, this data …
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From ‘docker’ to ‘terminal operator': work and employment change in the Port of London 1989 to 2002
… dockers and had provided a definition of "dock work'. Technical innovations in cargoes handling, especially containerisation, however, had altered how dock work was performed and had reduced the numbers of men needed. This had exacerbated problems in an industry notorious for its contentious …
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An investigation of Youth Work in Irish Youth Services
… project is to examine the extent to which youth work in Irish youth services pursues a social controlling function and to identify and examine types of power being deployed in the sector. The growth of youth services with paid, professional staff since the early 1990’s has seen the emergence of …
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Making sense of the organisation from the front line : the call centre context
… is a key concept supporting managerial and organisational cognitive research, and the analysis of various intervening processes that mediate how organisational members simplify and make sense of their environments. This study has directly responded to the challenge set by researchers to …
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Technologies, labour markets and workers: three essays on the consequences of technological change on labour
… for employment, wages and the organization of work across labour markets and occupational groups. It combines a comparative cross-national perspective with case-study evidence from Germany in order to capture the labour market dynamics related to technological change at both the macro and micro …
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Entwicklung von teilautonomen Gruppen in ausgewählten Forstbetrieben
In vielen Forstbetrieben wird die Neuorganisation der Waldarbeit erforderlich, weil sich die wirtschaftlichen und technischen Rahmenbedingungen für die Durchführung von Betriebsarbeiten verändert haben und sich auch weiter verändern werden. Besonders die Verringerung der Zahl der Waldarbeiter führt …
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The Japanisation process in Malaysia
… of Japanese soft technology (JST) or Japanese work organisation within two government-initiated, Malaysian-Japanese strategic alliances: PROTON and PERNEC. The government, through its Look East Policy (LEP) began in 1982, taking Japan (and South Korea) as models and partners in Malaysian …
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A Qualitative Analysis of Employees’ Experience of High Performance Work Systems in the UK Financial Service Sector
… the relationship between High Performance Work Systems (HPWS) and improved organisational performance, outcomes from the perspective of employees have received less attention. This is despite claims that a causal path from the HR practices to increased performance is mediated by employees. …
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Charakteristische Nutzereigenschaften und ihr Einfluss auf die Bedienung von Notebook-Eingabegeräten : eine arbeitspsychologische Evaluation von Touchpad und Trackpoint
The aim of this thesis was a work-psychological evaluation of notebook-input devices, touchpad and trackpoint, in the framework of human-computer interaction. The focus of the studies conducted was on effects of differential user characteristics on the usability of notebook input devices. …
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Historical shifts in knowledge, skill and identity in the South African plant baking industry : implications for curriculum
… aim of this study is to examine the shifts in organisation of work in the South African plant baking industry and, in doing so, identify the corresponding shifts in knowledge, skill and identity of production supervisors. By examining how the work organisation of the bakeries has changed, as …
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Tacit knowledge in craft pedagogy: a sociological analysis
… conceptual scheme that derives from the earlier work of Basil Bernstein. Against the background of this analysis of craft pedagogy, the nature of the 'tacit' is explored through a detailed analysis of the evaluative requirements of the final trade test. Thereafter a conceptual model is developed …